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james from birmingham, alabama on the democrats' line. caller: mr. timothy geithner is try to help the economy get back strong like before. a lot of people will look at this. host: tennessee, the independent line. just then. caller: i am finding myself have a hard time listening to these people call in and say these great things about timothy geithner considering the fact he came into his position 0 in $50,000 in taxes, which he failed at that juncture to pay. afterwards he was able to do so. had he not been put in that position, i asked myself if he would have been among the fat cats who did not have to pay taxes or any other number of things they have been shielded from during the past four years of absolutely hideous and unconstitutional fiscal and monetary policy. host: what is chief among the policies he would criticize? caller: the big one is a lot of people did not ask who we owe the debt to. we do not owe the debt to a federal institution. as a matter of fact, we do not even print our own tender based on the constitution and how it disposed t
james from birmingham, alabama on the democrats' line. caller: mr. timothy geithner is try to help the economy get back strong like before. a lot of people will look at this. host: tennessee, the independent line. just then. caller: i am finding myself have a hard time listening to these people call in and say these great things about timothy geithner considering the fact he came into his position 0 in $50,000 in taxes, which he failed at that juncture to pay. afterwards he was able to do so....
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gina is our next caller in birmingham, alabama, independent. caller: this is the problem. the gop pose a problem and the problem.s' the democratic party is a fascist party now. you take each department and break down the budget. personnel, operating budgets. and go through every little program to pay for it. grant everything. you cut out the grants. cut out the public service announcements. look at their payroll and see how much they're making. then you get in line with everybody else in america. make each department give you a budget. then cut junk out line by line. there's a jump in all of them. -- junk. host: steve says -- danielle is up next in illinois, democrat. -- daniel. caller: good morning. house republicans are talking about cutting out money and holding up salaries and spending and crying but the country is broke. we know that we live in one of the richest nations on earth. and our president obama knows that wealth is a result of the common wealth. i hope the republicans don't think the democrats are playing checkers with them. if the republicans don't wake up
gina is our next caller in birmingham, alabama, independent. caller: this is the problem. the gop pose a problem and the problem.s' the democratic party is a fascist party now. you take each department and break down the budget. personnel, operating budgets. and go through every little program to pay for it. grant everything. you cut out the grants. cut out the public service announcements. look at their payroll and see how much they're making. then you get in line with everybody else in...
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host: birmingham -- new york, a call. you are on c-span. caller: i was wondering if your guest could expand on the state of new york financially. a couple of quick direct questions -- i saw yesterday on the news regarding the pension system, it said $8.8 billion was orchestrated to retirees last year. 8.8 out, 230 going in. i was wondering if you had any insight on the retirement system. if you could give me a general overview on how you think new york is doing -- thank you. guest: the last numbers i saw had a relatively short budget policy this year. in the immediate budget situation is not the best one out there. it was much more dire a few years ago. certainly with retirement systems in every state, one of the big questions has been whether states make their payments into the pension system that they are required to make. that is what got states like illinois or new jersey in trouble. there is an amount of money the actuary says they need to put into the system and they were not putting that money in so that further and further behind. n
host: birmingham -- new york, a call. you are on c-span. caller: i was wondering if your guest could expand on the state of new york financially. a couple of quick direct questions -- i saw yesterday on the news regarding the pension system, it said $8.8 billion was orchestrated to retirees last year. 8.8 out, 230 going in. i was wondering if you had any insight on the retirement system. if you could give me a general overview on how you think new york is doing -- thank you. guest: the last...
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the birmingham bombings, the sputnik launch, the cuban missile crisis -- that was the most dangerous time the country has been through. the environmental emergencies of the late 1960's. something like that will happen. in the previous 20 years of talking about these things will be a prelude to a fairly quickly making a deal. that is how this will end. >> you are fundamentally an optimist. your recent cover story -- america rebounds. i want to ask you all to vote on one last question. the question we started with, because we are interested as to whether it your opinions changed a little bit as a result of this conversation here tonight. for those of you who are online and watch it on c-span, we ask the question we started with. if a national crisis our roads, how confident are you that the president and congress could agree on a pro at the plan of action? maybe even a big deal. i want to call on one of our special guests in the audience. frank is the co-chair of the presidential commission on debates. >> of want to thank you for the opportunity. i want to ask you, your whole career, y
the birmingham bombings, the sputnik launch, the cuban missile crisis -- that was the most dangerous time the country has been through. the environmental emergencies of the late 1960's. something like that will happen. in the previous 20 years of talking about these things will be a prelude to a fairly quickly making a deal. that is how this will end. >> you are fundamentally an optimist. your recent cover story -- america rebounds. i want to ask you all to vote on one last question. the...
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king committed himself to birmingham. it was segregated by race and stratified by gender and condition of life and in every other way you might want to think. there were few female students at the university of north carolina. they had to be nursing students. there were none at yale and westceton let alone las point. in that same month 50 years ago, george wallace took office in alabama with an address pledging segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever, looking at a world that was segregated by race down into the state constitution's ban had defined partisan politics in the united states such that the democratic party was the party of segregation throughout the seven states. not one single member -- no republicans. i grew up in atlanta. republicans were as scarce as polar bears. everybody else was a democrat. the democrats had ended reconstruction and were the party of solidarity. since then, this movement transformed politics, transformed our world in ways that we suppressed because we have a terrible
king committed himself to birmingham. it was segregated by race and stratified by gender and condition of life and in every other way you might want to think. there were few female students at the university of north carolina. they had to be nursing students. there were none at yale and westceton let alone las point. in that same month 50 years ago, george wallace took office in alabama with an address pledging segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever, looking at a world...
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king committed himself to birmingham. it was segregated by race and stratified by gender and condition of life and in every other way you might want to think. there were few female students at the university of north carolina. they had to be nursing students. there were none at yale and princeton let alone west point. in that same month 50 years ago, george wallace took office in alabama with an address pledging segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever, looking at a world that was segregated by race down into the state constitution's ban had defined partisan politics in the united states such that the democratic party was the party of segregation throughout the seven states.-- southern states. not one single member -- no republicans. i grew up in atlanta. republicans were as scarce as polar bears. everybody else was a democrat. the democrats had ended reconstruction and were the party of solidarity. since then, this movement transformed politics, transformed our world in ways that we suppressed because
king committed himself to birmingham. it was segregated by race and stratified by gender and condition of life and in every other way you might want to think. there were few female students at the university of north carolina. they had to be nursing students. there were none at yale and princeton let alone west point. in that same month 50 years ago, george wallace took office in alabama with an address pledging segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever, looking at a world...
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the horrific birmingham church bombing was 50 years ago. the president will be surrounded, symbolically and historic plea, by a lot of civil rights milestones. i believe the widow of medgar evers will give the invocation. the president will take the oath with one hand on the bible belonging to martin luther king. yes, i think this will be a moment where he will definitely refer to the civil rights milestones that got him to this moment. >> the other bible will be abraham lincoln's. >> i just noticed in that clip with bill clinton, the camera cuts to dexter king, his youngest son, i wonder how it must have felt to be there. i imagine he will be there tomorrow as well. >> has the promise that dr. king talked about 50 years ago been fulfilled, would to re-election of president obama? >> i think you cannot deny that we have made tremendous progress and the election of -- re- election of president obama is another milestone moment in civil rights history, but we still have a long way to go as far as racial reconciliation in america, building wha
the horrific birmingham church bombing was 50 years ago. the president will be surrounded, symbolically and historic plea, by a lot of civil rights milestones. i believe the widow of medgar evers will give the invocation. the president will take the oath with one hand on the bible belonging to martin luther king. yes, i think this will be a moment where he will definitely refer to the civil rights milestones that got him to this moment. >> the other bible will be abraham lincoln's....
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amelia in birmingham. >> yes. i would like to comment on the whole day. i think the first family looked marvelous this morning. his speech was marvelous. this journey has to go on with him in order to complete his mission that he first started out of a nation of saying we can. we can do that as a nation. we can overcome our turmoils that we have already set in place. >> i am going to let you go. we have the president and mrs. obama. >♪ [applause] >> and now please welcome grammy and academy award winner, jennifer hudson. stay together"] ♪ i, i am so in love with you whatever you want to do is all right with me you make me feel so brand-new i want to spend my life with you let me say, since we've been to gather loving you forever needwhat i ♪ let me be the one you come running to i want to spend my life with you , let's stay together loving you whether whether times are good or bad, happy or sad ♪ whether times are good or bad, happy or sad now why, tell me why people breakup turn around and make up i just can't see do that to me ♪ staying around
amelia in birmingham. >> yes. i would like to comment on the whole day. i think the first family looked marvelous this morning. his speech was marvelous. this journey has to go on with him in order to complete his mission that he first started out of a nation of saying we can. we can do that as a nation. we can overcome our turmoils that we have already set in place. >> i am going to let you go. we have the president and mrs. obama. >♪ [applause] >> and now please welcome...
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teetering on bankruptcy, many of them were sold bad goods, bad financial products just as were homeowners, birmingham, alabama, is an example. so whole cities are on the brink of bankruptcy and that, too, can be part of a movement connected to these issues. immigration, the lack of immigration reform means that there are 12 million undomented immigrantin this country would do not have access to health insurance. at the get sick and at the die just like everybody and where do at the go? they go into hospitals in inner city communities largely because to get treated and why are they treated? if you don't treat people with t.d. and other diseases, everybody gets sick, at the get treated, but tees hospitals don't have funding to pay for it. they're not covered by medicaid, medicare, these are hospitals that people of color rely generally in inner city communities. so this is a crisis. if folks who were involved in occupy can make the link and see how it is affecting immediately these same issues, how it plays out if communities of color, i think there are very powerful is synergies that can be built to b
teetering on bankruptcy, many of them were sold bad goods, bad financial products just as were homeowners, birmingham, alabama, is an example. so whole cities are on the brink of bankruptcy and that, too, can be part of a movement connected to these issues. immigration, the lack of immigration reform means that there are 12 million undomented immigrantin this country would do not have access to health insurance. at the get sick and at the die just like everybody and where do at the go? they go...
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teetering on bankruptcy, many of them were sold bad goods, bad financial products just as were homeowners, birmingham, alabama, is an example. so whole cities are on the brink of bankruptcy and that, too, can be part of a movement connected to these issues. immigration, the lack of immigration reform means that there are 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country would do not have access to health insurance. at the get sick and at the die just like everybody and where do at the go? they go into hospitals in inner city communities largely because to get treated and why are they treated? if you don't treat people with t.d. and other diseases, everybody gets sick, at the get treated, but tees hospitals don't have funding to pay for it. they're not covered by medicaid, medicare, these are hospitals that people of color rely generally in inner city communities. so this is a crisis. if folks who were involved in occupy can make the link and see how it is affecting immediately these same issues, how it plays out if communities of color, i think there are very powerful is synergies that can be built
teetering on bankruptcy, many of them were sold bad goods, bad financial products just as were homeowners, birmingham, alabama, is an example. so whole cities are on the brink of bankruptcy and that, too, can be part of a movement connected to these issues. immigration, the lack of immigration reform means that there are 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country would do not have access to health insurance. at the get sick and at the die just like everybody and where do at the go? they...
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this is birmingham, alabama. >> i just want to comment on a couple of things. caller: and i'm going to quantify my comments saying i'm a retired soldier from the army and a former recruiter. i have gone to the pentagon in support of the secretary of -- i'm sorry, sergeant major of the army in the 1980's so i'm going to say this and quantify by saying, on a security level, i think secretary clinton handled this very well. in the history of the united states, so much information is being demanded, that breaches security for the department of defense and all the other agencies within the military that i don't think these senators are aware of what they are asking her to divulge. when you say, why wasn't the video available? some information i classified -- is classified to a certain degree that they can't release it immediately. when we have people on foreign soil, our soldiers and marines, their jobs are limited by the act here in the united states and they know they can't go out there and say, hey, you guys are waving these flags, get away or to shoot them. they
this is birmingham, alabama. >> i just want to comment on a couple of things. caller: and i'm going to quantify my comments saying i'm a retired soldier from the army and a former recruiter. i have gone to the pentagon in support of the secretary of -- i'm sorry, sergeant major of the army in the 1980's so i'm going to say this and quantify by saying, on a security level, i think secretary clinton handled this very well. in the history of the united states, so much information is being...